1. Parts of Speech Notes
Nouns and Pronouns

2. Nouns
A noun is the part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
A concrete noun names something you can see, touch, taste, hear, or smell.
Examples: person, cannon, road, city, music
An abstract noun names something you cannot perceive through any of your five senses
Examples: hope, improvement, independence, desperation, cooperation
A collective noun names a group of people or things.
Examples: army, choir, troop, crew, class, faculty
A compound noun is a noun made up of two or more words acting as a single unit.
Examples: life preserver, coffee table, self-rule, daughter-in-law, battlefield, dreamland

3. Nouns
A common noun names any one of a class of people, places, or things.
Examples: building, writer, nation, month, leader, place, book, war
A proper noun names a specific person, place or thing. Proper nouns are capitalized, but common nouns are not.
Examples: Revolutionary War, White House, Mark Twain, France, June

4. Pronouns
Pronouns are words that stand for nouns or for words that take the place of nouns.
Antecedents of Pronouns- Pronouns get their meaning from the words they stand for. These words are called antecedents.
Examples: The arrows point from pronouns to their antecedents.
Michael said he lost his watch at the fair.
Because of its carnival, Rottweil, Germany is my favorite city.

5. Personal Pronouns- Refer to the person speaking (1st person), the person spoken to (2nd person), or the person, place, or thing spoken about (3rd person).
Singular
Plural
First Person
I, me, my, mine
We, us, our, ours
Second Person
You, your, yours
Third Person
He, him, his, she, her, hers, it, its
They, them, their, theirs
A reflexive pronoun ends in –self or –selves and indicates that someone or something in the sentence acts for or on itself.
An intensive pronouns ends in –self or –selves and simply adds emphasis to a noun or pronoun in the sentence.
Example: I mowed the lawn myself.
Singular
Plural
First Person
myself
ourselves
Second Person
yourself
yourselves
Third Person
Himself, herself, itself
Themselves

6. The Reciprocal Pronouns each other and one another refer to a plural antecedent. They express a mutual action or relationship.
Examples:
The two dogs shook water all over each other.
The class collected books from one another.
A Demonstrative Pronoun directs attention to a specific person, place, or thing.
A Reflexive Pronoun introduces an adjective clause, and connects it to the word that the clause modifies.
SINGULAR
PLURAL
This, that
These, those
Reflexive Pronouns
That
Which
Who
Whom
Whose

7. An interrogative pronoun is used to begin a question.
Example: Who picked up the children?
An indefinite pronoun refers to a person, place, or thing that may or may not be specifically named.
Singular
Plural
Both
Another
Everyone
Nothing
All
Anybody
Everything
One
Few
Any
Anyone
Little
Other
Many
More
Anything
Much
Somebody
Others
Most
Each
Neither
Someone
Several
None
Either
Nobody
Something
Some
Everybody
No one